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Eustace Conway, age twenty, is known as the Mountain Man of the Piedmont. Living in a teepee in Lincoln County, Conway reads Walden and is completely self-reliant. He eats mostly fruit and peanut butter and believes in living in harmony with nature and not in competition with it. For this reason, he rarely kills animals or even plants. A true outdoorsman, in 1981, Conway hiked the Appalachian Trail, a 2,200-mile trip, in sixteen weeks. He canoed from St. Louis to New Orleans, a 1,030-mile trip, in a month.
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Born in 1782, Adam Springs attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was one of the first seven graduates. He and his wife lived in Gaston County where they employed a girl to wash and iron his clothes. Her name was Nancy Hanks, and it is rumored her son, Abraham Lincoln, was the son of Adam Springs. Springs spent a great deal of time fish trapping on his property, and he was buried at the gravesite on his land, supposedly upside down, to keep an eye over the fish traps. For years, visitors insisted the gravesite was haunted, and ghost hunters today still go there searching for ghosts.
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Twelve miles south of Mount Pisgah on the Blueridge Parkway, Graveyard Fields is home to some of the finest scenery in the country. On Labor Day, the opening of blueberry season is celebrated here, and dedicated pickers are known to camp out for days at a time. Although wild blueberries grow all over the state, Graveyard Fields draws a crowd because of its breathtaking views.
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Olney Presbyterian Church of Gastonia has a graveyard with one particularly interesting grave. The tombstone of William Barnes, who died in 1823, is inscribed with the phrase “aged 218 years.†Although there is no acceptable explanation for why the marker reads this way, members of the church today do not think Barnes lived to be 218.
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In 1929, the city of Gastonia erupted into a bitter struggle between textile factory owners and workers. Employees at the Loray Mill walked off the job when Fred Beal, who had been organizing a strike, was fired. Violence quickly broke out and in the ensuing weeks Police Chief W. O. Aderholt and strike leader Ella May Wiggins were killed. During the night the one-hundred black cars roamed Gastonia's streets looking for strikers to assault. A trial was held regarding Aderholt's murder. Several of those convicted of the crime fled to Russia seeking asylum. The Loray strike is a tragic episode in Gastonia's history.
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Stone Mountain State Park near Roaring Gap is the favorite spot for rock climbing in North Carolina. The 300-million year old monadnock has thirteen ascent routes, all of which are smooth granite and allow for friction climbing. Audiences often gather to watch the climbers.
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7.Molasses Making Goes Modern – Almost by Williams, Robert L. The State Vol. 48 Issue 4, Sept 1980
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The molasses mill in Cleveland County is one of the few places left in North Carolina where molasses is made. Fitzhugh McMurry's mill has been in operation for over a century. This year, McMurry planted fifteen acres of sugar cane and is expecting a yield of about six hundred gallons of molasses. McMurry begins making his molasses in mid-September, and has customers as far away as California come to purchase it.
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When night-wandering dogs threatened the lives of David P. Dellinger's chickens, he appealed to the General Assembly to make Dellview a town in 1925 so that the residents could legally shoot the trespassing dogs. Eighty-five-year-old Mrs. J. Henry Dellinger was named mayor of 52-acre Dellview at its founding, and has been the only mayor the town has ever had. The current eight residents, all family of the mayor, have no intention of expanding their little town, either in size or population.
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The Sage of Belwood, Flay Willis, carves walking sticks he sells at his general store in Belwood Mall. Although his canes typically sell for around $100, his finest work is given to friends and fellow Masons. Not limited to North Carolina, President Gerald Ford and Senator Jesse Helms are a few people of influence who own Flay Willis canes.
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Earl Owensby began making movies in Shelby. His first film, \"Challenge,\" was not very good but did attract attention and spurred Owensby onward. His latest movie, \"Living Legend,\" stars Ginger Aldene, girlfriend of the late Elvis Presley. Currently, Owensby is working on \"Plantation,\" a modest version of the classic \"Gone with the Wind.\"
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Knobby, Cleveland County's smaller version of Big Foot, is spotted every year in early December. Knobby is non-violent and there are many speculations as to what he really is. Recently, a movie company has decided to produce a film about the monster, bringing national recognition to Cleveland County.\r\n
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Ex-Duke University football player, Frank Creech of Smithfield, now spends his time as an artist. Creech is a sculptor, painter, pot thrower, and printmaker. Some of his best work are sculpted brass timepieces, and can be seen at The Spring Branch Art Works where he works, as well as in various shows throughout the South.\r\n
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Faced with huge building costs, Keith and Vicki Lambert of Lucia built their home themselves using recycled parts of an old mill. They salvaged several stained glass windows from an old church. All told, the house cost the couple roughly $10,000 to complete. Keith, who is chairman of the Art Department at Gaston College, built the house in his spare time and designed the structure himself.\r\n
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On December 18, 1891, Carolina Shipp was hanged near Dallas in Gaston County. She was the last woman executed on the gallows in North Carolina. Her death was unpleasant and grave robbers exhumed her body the night it was buried. Shipp was accused of killing her baby, but maintained that her boyfriend, Mack Farrar, was the guilty one.
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The first cotton mill appeared in Gastonia in 1816 and by 1925, Gastonia was the cotton mill capital of the world. The biggest of these, the Loray Mill, began reducing wages resulting in a strike beginning on April 1, 1929. Immediately violence broke out, resulting in shoot outs, fights, and the killing on the police chief on June 7th. A trial, which found seven defendants guilty and sent them to jail, did not begin until August.\r\n
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